[89343] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Honest Cogent opinions without rhetoric.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Wed Mar 8 08:38:11 2006
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 08:37:44 -0500
From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: alex@pilosoft.com
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> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:
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> >
> > We have heard a lot of negatives about them, about their
> > pricing model, about their network, about de-peering with=20
> > Level 3, etc. What we really need is actual information.
> >
> Much of the negatives is from jaded competitors who don't=20
> want to fairly compete. Other than that, the answer is 'it depends'.=20
Depends on if you like to do traffic engineering; Cogent's
BGP community support, consisting of a whole three things you
can set (two if you only have a single connection to them),
makes that rather difficult.
David
